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Eiichi Kikuchi
(born August 21, 1942, in Tokyo Metropolis) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in several episodes of the Ultra Series. TV *''Ambassador Magma'' (1966-1967) *''Ultra Seven'' (1967-1968) - Ultra Seven *'' Fight! Mighty Jack'' *''Return of Ultraman'' (1971) - Ultraman Jack / Zazahn / MAT Communication Worker *''Kaiketsu Lion-Maru'' *''Ultraman Ace'' *''Ultraman Taro'' *''Denjin Zaborger'' *''J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai'' *''Spider-Man (tokusatsu)'' *''Battle Fever J'' *''Ultraman 80'' *''Dai Sentai Goggle V'' (1982-1983, 15 episodes) - Dr. Iguana *''Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion'' (1985, Episodes 25 & 26) - Gazami brother #1 *''Gridman the Hyper Agent'' *''Ultraman Dyna'' *''Ultraman Nexus'' *''Ultraman Mebius'' (2006) - President of the Kikuchi Electric Appliances Company Films *'' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) - Hitman (uncredited) *''Number Ten Blues'' (1975) *''The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit'' (2008) *''Executive Koala , born 15 August 1958, is a Japanese filmmaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman 80
is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show produced by Tsuburaya Productions which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System channel from April 2, 1980, to March 25, 1981, lasting a total of 50 episodes. After going off the air in 1981, the network still aired weekly reruns of the show. It was the ninth TV show in the Ultra Series and began a week after the conclusion of the anime series ''The Ultraman'', bringing the franchise back to its live-action roots. It would be the last Ultraman TV series for Japanese audiences during the following 16 years until the production of ''Ultraman Tiga''. Plot Following the end of the 1979-80 anime ''The Ultraman'', ''Ultraman 80'' returns to the setting of the main Showa continuity, taking place after 5 years of peace since the end of ''Ultraman Leo''. A new middle school teacher Takeshi Yamato is actually the disguised Ultra from the Land of Light, Ultraman 80, whose mission is to fight a new wave of monsters resulted from Minus Energy while stabilizing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Male Film Actors
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Executive Koala
, born 15 August 1958, is a Japanese filmmaker, best known for low-budget parody films featuring surreal humour and traditional practical effects. Kawasaki began his career with mostly self-financed work, including the ''Den-Ace'' short films, featuring a parody of kyodai-style Japanese superheroes, before working on Tsuburaya Production's ''Ultraman Tiga'' (1996-1997). He had his first hit with ''The Calamari Wrestler'' (2004), about a wrestler who inexplicably becomes a giant squid. He followed this up with ''Executive Koala'' (2005), about an anthropomorphic koala salaryman who may or may not have murdered his wife, and ''Kabuto-O Beetle'' (also 2005), another wrestling-themed movie, this time with a giant stag beetle. In 2006, he released ''The World Sinks Except Japan'', a spoof of Shinji Higuchi's remake of '' Japan Sinks'', and ''Crab Goalkeeper'' (also 2006), a film Kawasaki describes as being his ''Forrest Gump'' (1994). Kawasaki has also directed 2008's '' Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack The G8 Summit
''Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit'' ( ''Girara no Gyakushū: Tōyako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu'' lit. ''Guilala's Counterattack: Lake Toya Summit Crisis'') is a 2008 Japanese ''kaiju'' comedy film, released by Shochiku and produced by the Guilala Production Committee.「宇宙船vol.124特別付録 宇宙船 YEARBOOK 2009」『宇宙船』vol.124（2009.春号）、ホビージャパン、2009 April1、 別冊p.34、 Plot In the year 2008, all the world leaders are together at a G8 Summit meeting in Japan. A meteorite crashes into the heart of Sapporo and releases the monster Guilala. The monster rampages through Sapporo, leaving death and destruction in his wake. After leveling the city, Guilala transforms into a giant ball of fire and flies across Hokkaidō, making its way to the G8 Summit. The Prime Minister of Japan proposes cancelling the summit for the safety of all involved, but the President of the United States convinces the other world leaders to personall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number Ten Blues
Number Ten Blues ( ja, ナンバーテン・ブルース さらばサイゴン, zh, link=no, 第十藍調, vi, Đệ-thập lam-điệu) or Goodbye Saigon ( ja, サヨナラ・サイゴン, zh, link=no, 告别西貢, vi, Giã-biệt Sài-gòn) is a 1975 Japanese 35mm fujicolor film directed by . This movie, shot between December 1974 and April 1975, remained unfinished and was considered lost for many years. It was finally completed and released in 2013. ''ナンバーテン・ブルース さらばサイゴン''、 インターネット・ムービー・データベース 、2014年5月8日閲覧。 ''ナンバーテン・ブルース さらばサイゴン''、 KINENOTE, 2014年5月8日閲覧。 ''ナンバーテン・ブルース さらばサイゴン''、 allcinema, 2014年5月8日閲覧。 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Only Live Twice (film)
''You Only Live Twice'' is a 1967 spy film and the fifth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed the 1977 film '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' and the 1979 film '' Moonraker'', both starring Roger Moore. The screenplay of ''You Only Live Twice'' was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story. In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet crewed spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island to find the perpetrators, and comes face-to-face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. The film reveals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Mebius
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 20th TV series and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on April 8, 2006. Unlike the two prior entries, ''Ultraman Nexus'' (2004) and ''Ultraman Max'' (2005), ''Mebius'' was moved from Saturday mornings to Saturday evenings at 05:30 and the show went on to air in Korea in April 2012. On October 22, 2014, Crunchyroll announced that the entire series would be available that day on their streaming service for the US, Canada, Latin America, Mainland Europe (except France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and Former Communist and Non-communist states in Eastern Europe (eg, Central, Post-Soviet states in Europe and Southeastern Europe), and Finland, Iceland and Norway, Denmark and Sweden), UK and Ireland, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Nexus
was produced by Tsuburaya Productions, Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting (CBC), and Dentsu. It was the 18th entry in the Ultra Series. The series aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System, including TBS, CBC, MBS, etc. The show ran from October 2, 2004 until June 25, 2005, with a total of 37 broadcast episodes. Subsequent DVD releases from Bandai Visual saw a brand new 45-minute Episode EX and an extended 45-minute Director's Cut of Episode 29. On April 24, 2017, Toku announced that the series would be broadcast in the United States on its channel beginning May 9, 2017 until June 2, 2017. History ''Ultraman Nexus'' was part of Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra N Project, an experiment in 2004 to re-invent Ultraman for a new generation of fans. Prior to this, however, Tsuburaya had begun a project called Ultra Collaboration 2 at the end of 2003, which involved a brand-new radio adaptation of Ultra Q called ''The Ultra Q Club''. The project was also due to include a new TV series called ''Ultraman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Dyna
is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show which aired from 5 September 1997 until 28 August 1998. It is a direct sequel to the previous Ultraman series, ''Ultraman Tiga'' and the 13th entry to the ''Ultra Series''. Plot In the year 2017 (seven years after the final episode of ''Ultraman Tiga''), TPC has advanced beyond earth, and has created a new team, "Super GUTS". Humans have begun terraforming Mars and other planets in what is known as the "Age of the Neo Frontier". One day, the Neo Frontier is attacked by an alien race known as the Spheres. Shin Asuka has just joined Super GUTS and is in the middle of training maneuvers above Earth's atmosphere when he and his comrades are attacked. He proves himself in battle and can hold his own against ace pilot Ryo Yukimura. However, his ship is damaged and he ejects, after which he encounters a shining light. It is then that a new giant of light merges with the bewildered Shin, saving his life. When the Spheres enter Mars' atmosphere and merge wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gridman The Hyper Agent
, known as ''Gridman the Hyper Agent'' in some English-speaking territories, is a 1993–1994 Japanese tokusatsu " Giant Hero" series created by Tsuburaya Productions (the producers of ''Ultraman'') and would be Tsuburaya's last non-Ultra superhero production before ''Bio Planet WoO''. It was the inspiration and source material for DiC Entertainment's ''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad''. Shot on live video, ''Gridman'' was the first series by Tsuburaya Productions to utilize D-2 digital video for its special effects scenes, allowing for smoother slow-motion photography. Tsuburaya, having switched to digital techniques since then, would continue to use D-2 for all future productions. The series was released in the United States with subtitles in English on the television network TOKU on December 18, 2017. The series was also made available on Toku's streaming service and on its Amazon Prime channel. On October 30, 2020, the series began streaming episodes weekly on Tsuburaya's U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion
, also known as ''Space Wolf Juspion'', is a Japanese tokusatsu television series and part of the Metal Hero Series franchise. Produced by Toei Company, it was originally broadcast from 15 March 1985 to 24 March 1986, running for 46 episodes. The name "Juspion" is a portmanteau of "Justice" and "Champion". The series was aired in Brazil under the name "O Fantástico Jaspion" in 1988 and enjoyed unprecedented success in that country, eventually paving the way for other tokusatsu television series in Brazilian television. Juspion was aired in the Philippines on GMA Network in 1988. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as ''Jaspion''. In February 2018, it was announced that Juspion would get a remake movie produced by Brazilian company Sato Company, with Toei's endorsement and approval. The movie's cast was expected to be announced in 2019, with the film set initially to be released in the early 2020s. in 2020, the Brazilian publisher JBC launched a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
